Wipro will be implementing the core banking solution for Paytm.
Shares of IT services major Wipro on Monday surged nearly 8 per cent after the company reported an 8 per cent growth in consolidated net profit in the December quarter.
Wipro has guided for 0.8-2.8 per cent sequential growth in IT service revenue for December quarter, saying revenue from that business is expected to be $ 2,065-2,106 million.
Zomato emerged as the biggest gainer, followed by Reliance, Nestle, Asian Paints and Power Grid.
An Indian woman employee at the London office of IT major Wipro has filed a 1 million pounds compensation case of sexual discrimination.
'I think some of us, like Mukesh Ambani, myself and those of us who head industrial units, ought to really focus on what we can really do to make the world a safer place, maybe 50 or 100 years from now.' 'For instance, how can we deal with climate change and global warming, right now?' 'The effects of it may not be felt now; in fact, we may pay a price for it today, but it will help the generations to follow.'
These 90 new jobs are in addition to the 280 staff that Wipro already employs across Scotland.
Wipro posted a 4.6 per cent rise in revenue at Rs 15,711 crore in January-March quarter compared to Rs 15,006.3 crore in the year-ago period.
The stocks are largely from sectors such as chemicals, finance and cement, which struggled earlier but the worse seems to be behind them.
Revenue from its IT services business rose 9 percent to $1.86 billion.
The Tata Group is one of the very few Indian MNCs which has carved out a niche in China's highly competitive market, notes Rup Narayan Das.
The company's growth was driven by a decline in total expenses, lower finance cost and higher other income.
Software major Wipro's IT enabled services business subsidiary Spectramind has bagged a Business Process Outsourcing order from global giant Microsoft, a top company official said
Geopolitical events, macroeconomic data and quarterly earnings of corporates would guide the stock market in a holiday-shortened week ahead, analysts said. Stock markets will remain closed on Wednesday for Ram Navami. "This week promises to be crucial for the market as fresh worries about a potential conflict between Iran and Israel emerge.
He is betting on emerging firms to generate ideas and build wealth through Premji Invest
Movement in the equity market this week will largely be dictated by quarterly earnings of blue-chip firms HDFC Bank and Hindustan Unilever, along with the announcement of WPI inflation data and global trends, analysts said. Trading activity of foreign investors, global oil benchmark Brent crude and rupee-dollar trend would also guide the movement.
Wipro, Satyam join TCS, Infosys in beating rupee blues.
PGDIE, NITIE, Mumbai, invites students and working professionals for Lakshya, a corporate and B-school students' event.
Nasdaq-listed Wipro Ltd on Wednesday said its chairman Azim Premji has been named among the 'greatest entrepreneurs' of all time by BusinessWeek.
Within days of announcing mega investments for building in Hyderabad its second data centre cluster in India, Amazon Web Services (AWS) on Monday said it is excited about the India market, where cloud adoption offers massive headroom for growth. Pledging its long-term commitment to the India market, AWS, Amazon's cloud computing unit, said it expects global uncertainties to accelerate the decisions by companies to opt for flexible, on-demand cloud infrastructure to pare costs, gain efficiencies and drive business innovation. "Cloud reacts well to uncertainty," Puneet Chandok, president - commercial business, AWS India and South Asia, Amazon Internet Services Pvt Ltd (AISPL) told PTI.
The crux of the problem it appears is one of "trust" and the perception that a unilateral decision was taken by the board, allegedly to favour Raju's sons' companies.
TCS, Infy, Wipro among those that have bagged a five-year deal.
Azim Premji that the company is looking at fiscal 2009 with cautious optimism, given the rapidly changing market situation which has a bearing on its immediate business dynamics. Wipro is also bullish on its India and Middle East geographies to deliver turbocharged growth riding on the investments in these markets. Girish Paranjpe said most of its clients are expected to spend more on IT in the second half of the current calendar year compared to the first one.
Wipro's scrip jumped 2.97 per cent to Rs 468.50 on the NSE.
Dalal Street investors became richer by Rs 9.68 lakh crore in five days of market rally, where the Sensex breached the historic 73,000-mark for the first time ever to reach a new record peak, taking the market capitalisation of BSE-listed companies to an all-time high of Rs 376 lakh crore. The 30-share BSE Sensex jumped 759.49 points or 1.05 per cent to settle at a new closing high of 73,327.94 on Monday. During the day, it zoomed 833.71 points or 1.14 per cent to reach its all-time peak of 73,402.16.
Technology barons Azim Premji and Shiv Nadar are among seven Indians in U S-based business magazine Forbes' latest list of the world's 476 dollar billionaires released this week.
From the Sensex pack, Infosys, HCL Technologies, Infosys, NTPC, Mahindra & Mahindra, Tata Consultancy Services, Nestle, Tech Mahindra and Bajaj Finance were the major gainers. Power Grid, Larsen & Toubro, Maruti, Titan, HDFC Bank, Wipro, HDFC and ITC were among the laggards.
The catchwords today are digital, analytics, robotics.
While the Trinamool government, led by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, tried its best to attract investors, including from Singapore, not much headway could be made.
Tata Consultancy Services has been named as one of the world's top BPO providers by The International Association of Outsourcing Professionals for 2006, a release said in Mumbai.
According to analysts, IT firms like Infosys, TCS and HCL Technologies are likely to benefit the most on account of larger US exposures and dollar billing.
Will Infy spring a surprise in subdued second quarter?
India's roughly $150 billion outsourcing sector generates about three quarters of its revenue from the United States.
Brands are turning up the pitch on voter participation, targeting millennial consumers.
From India, Reliance Industries is the only one in the overall top-200 list and is followed by HDFC Bank at 209th, ONGC at 220th, Indian Oil at 288th and HDFC Ltd at 332nd place.
Anil Ambani, vice chairman and managing director of Reliance Industries Ltd, has been adjudged the most admired chief executive in India, while his elder brother Mukesh Ambani occupied the fifth slot.